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  1. Re:That's a maximum rating on the power supply on $250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer · · Score: 1

    No, both USB 1.1 and 2 require that devices plugged into the root hub be allowed to draw up to 500mA at 5V.

  2. Re:built-in coffin on VW Concept Microcar Gets 235 MPG · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pardon, metric gallons? The only "metric" gallon that I'm aware of is the 1985 legal definition of the British Imperial gallon that defines it to be 4.54609dm^3.

  3. Re:Is it just me... on An Imaginative Use For CCTVs · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's is a similar part under the Freedom of Information act, thats lets them charge a fee to process your request. It's a bit more £20 for the upper limit IIRC.

  4. Re:Courage... on Using Magnets To Turn Off the Brain's Speech Center · · Score: 1

    I personally would think that considering the length of his protest (that was cut short by the insertion of a gag), it would qualify for fair use.

  5. Re:Courage... on Using Magnets To Turn Off the Brain's Speech Center · · Score: 1

    He was singing them to the tune of The Clash's Pressure Drop.

  6. Re:I knew it! on The Reality Distortion Field Is Real · · Score: 1

    You make that sound like a bad thing.

  7. Re:If torture wasn't unreliable enough on Hearing Voices? Could Be the Lasers · · Score: 1

    Admittedly I only checked Wikipedia, but Blondie didn't.

  8. Re:If torture wasn't unreliable enough on Hearing Voices? Could Be the Lasers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Blondie didn't do a "I Touch Myself" cover, the original song was done by Australian rock band the Divinyls.

  9. Re:Informative? on Pope Denounces Some Biotech as Affront to 'Human Dignity' · · Score: 1

    No one said they had to be biological fathers.

  10. Re:Untraceable? Try Unwatchable! on Impress Your Friends While Watching "Untraceable" · · Score: 1

    The wonderful word of Oz is is fiction?
    Why must you ruin my childhood memories?

  11. Re:play.com on French Fine Amazon For Free Shipping · · Score: 1

    But Play (and HMV for small orders) are not much cheaper then Amazon or other uk-based internet retailers, you are only depriving the government of their rightful funds (needed to provide public services) to give it to the share-holders.

  12. Re:Why is this a problem? on Y2K38 Watch Starts Saturday · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not his fault, he was using an Pentium.

  13. Re:My date of birth on Y2K38 Watch Starts Saturday · · Score: 1

    Provided it does not use cooperative multitasking I'm fine with it, but this rather exclude MacOS.

  14. Re:Fuck you America on Interview With Pirate Party Leader Rick Falkvinge · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It was solid state, in the sense that it did not use vacuum tubes; just not in the modern no-moving-parts sense.

  15. Re:"Western"? on Western-Style Voting 'A Loser' · · Score: 1

    Yes but for the Westminster parliament, Scotland still uses the first past the post.

  16. Re:The UK should get one of these... on China Anti-Corruption Web Site Crashes On First Day · · Score: 1

    But at least it will still be in a government building, the House of Lords one would presume.

  17. Re:English Penny on Penny-Sized Flash Module Holds 16GB · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why deal with old pre-1707 English pennies, when a new one pence piece is called a penny? At 2cm diameter, this would be still quite small.

  18. Re:This is great. on Online Sex Offender Database Leads To Murder? · · Score: 1

    I mean, either way, she's getting screwed, what difference does it make how old the other party is.


    The main difference is the perceived increase in possibility that an older partner would use coercion, or would act predatory towards the younger. It is also to an extend based on the moral-righteousness of people just thinking it is an improper way for such and older person to behave.

    I personally believe because of the former the burden of proof should at least be relaxed, although I feel the that the extend of which it is effective relaxed with respect to statutory rape is unreasonably low.
  19. Re:The Number of the Beast? on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 1

    Maybe it is just perfect cubes are easier to lay out in server racks, and they didn't have the budget for 8^3 nodes.

    On a tangent, why does /. not let you use the html tag?

  20. Re:Video games rated under the same rules as movie on Rockstar Forces Reconsideration of Manhunt 2 in UK · · Score: 1

    The game was banned by the BBFC not the ESRB or its PEGI european counter-part, the BBFC also rates (and bans/demands cuts) from films.

  21. Re:How'd that go again? on Rockstar Forces Reconsideration of Manhunt 2 in UK · · Score: 1

    But the GP, was complaining of government censorship. It is of course the right of a retailer to not carry an item, and the console company to refuse necessary licences for it to be released for their platform.
    But besides that even if you make the leap of faith that the government should have some powers to ban thing; it is improper for the government hiding behind a quasi-independent body to ban any single item. The proper way would to of been for the CPS to bring a procession against the company and people involved under the OPA*, where there would be a real legal test to see if the game was violating the law.

    *OPA = Obscene Publications Acts

  22. Re:Here you go on Will ISP Web Content Filtering Continue To Grow? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot does if you're a paying subscriber.

  23. Re:What's the warranty on this sucka? on New Seagate Drives Have Real Difficulties With Linux · · Score: 1

    He only needs to store diffs on DVDs, not the full data-set.

  24. Re:compatible with GPLv3 ? on FSF Releases AGPL License For Web Services · · Score: 1

    How is that related?
    This means that if somebody writes a DHTML listbox control, releases it under this license; and some company uses this listbox control on their web-app, then they would have to provide the full source of their web-app under the license. But the the DHTML listbox control only runs on the client, the client already has the source code for the listbox control, it is not a public performance.

    Or in the case of server side code being released under the license, the only thing the client uses or gets is the the output, and in most cases the output of a server side library is not protected under the copyright of the library that created it. For instance if you create a picture in PhotoShop, then Adobe would have no claim to it.

  25. Re:"far more rapidly" on Is a Laser Data Link 1.5 Million Kilometers Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Sssh, don't tell the European Commission they will try to lower it. After all photons traveling at 1.08e9 km/h would kill a lot of children if they wherever able to get onto the streets.